When someone at Vox says they have “one big idea” to reduce gun deaths, you can probably guess what’s coming. Yet that’s what Rachel DuRose proclaimed yesterday and I’ll admit to being pleasantly surprised. DuRose isn’t focusing on mass shootings, self-defense killings, or gang violence in cities. She’s zeroing in on the 4,357 children killed by gunfire in 2020 in instances that were classified as either accidental shootings or youth suicides. Obviously, one child killed or wounded in such a fashion is too many, but the numbers are indeed alarming. To her credit, the author isn’t issuing a call for gun confiscation or sales restrictions. She is instead focusing on the question of safe gun storage in private homes, particularly when there are children living there.Read More
The gun storage debate
